Alfa Romeo has announced the price of its stunningly gorgeous 8C supercar.
 
The car will cost 159,300 Euros (£108,000 at current exchange rates). Alfa Romeo has also announced that they will be making the last 99 of the limited production run of 500 in a special USA spec, at last ending a 12-year longing and wanting for Alfa fans in the United States since it left the market in 1995.
 
First seen as a concept car at the Frankfurt show in 2003, the 8C was intended to be an expensive, limited-edition sports car that would promote the resurgence of the Alfa Romeo brand. After receiving more than an enthusiastic response for the vehicle Alfa has promised to build the 8C. The move, says some, is in part to establish itself in the U.S. before the less expensive, more mainstream Brera and Spider arrives in the market. Word is, both will be sold in U.S. showrooms sometime in 2010.
 
Enter the production 8C – remarkably close to the concept, meets U.S. federal regulations. A special facility at Maserati’s headquarters in Modena has been set up to build the 8C, with production set to start next September. Alfa expects to build 600 of these cars over 18 months and then cease production.